Usage:
Hounsfield Metabentonite [Bed] of Selby Formation (NY)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian; earliest Chatfieldian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in small quarry just north of Dexter-Brownville Road at foot of west slope of hill, 2 mi east of Dexter, Jefferson Co., NY. [Named from adjacent Hounsfield Twp.] (Kay, 1930).
AAPG geologic province:
Appalachian basin
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